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Here's a question for the weekend: are there any shows that you thought got better after they were re-tooled in a big, probably network-mandated way? Normally when a show re-tools all at once , the obvious desperation, the determination to make it into something it was never intended to be, makes it hard to watch.

Bizarre television comedy with Robin Williams as Mork from Ork, who is an alien hatched from an egg, sent to investigate Earth and report back to his superiors.

Bizarre television comedy with Robin Williams as Mork from Ork, who is an alien hatched from an egg, sent to investigate Earth and report back to his superiors.

Bizarre television comedy with Robin Williams as Mork from Ork, who is an alien hatched from an egg, sent to investigate Earth and report back to his superiors.

I'm Dying Up Here is about what it's subtitle suggests: Heartbreak and High Times in Standup Comedy's Golden Era .

Compared to television today, which offers hundreds of channels for every type of show imaginable, the eighties were much simpler.